Dynatrace acquires Arize for AI agent development
The cash-and-stock deal for Arize AI, a 200-employee company based in Berkeley, Calif., and founded in 2020, will add its AI agent evaluation and experimentation tools to Dynatrace's portfolio, where they will be combined with the recently unveiled [Bluebox AI](https://www.techtarget.com/searchitoperations/news/366646654/Dynatrace-execs-dish-details-on-Bluebox-autonomous-AI) product. "Arize was built as an agent-first platform, with one of the largest collections of agent trace data in the industry," wrote Arize co-founder and CEO Jason Lopatecki in a [blog post](https://arize.com/blog/a-new-chapter-with-dynatrace/). # Enterprises want unified software, agent development In April, Cisco [acquired Galileo](https://www.techtarget.com/searchitoperations/news/366641600/Cisco-Galileo-buy-reflects-blurring-lines-in-AI-observability), which performs AI agent evaluations and integrates with Splunk observability tools.